Challenges of large scale BI deployments

Learn about large scale BI deployments from Dave Fackler who spent the past 18 months implementing the BI Office suite from Pyramid Analytics within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Dave helped architect and build the entire data warehouse and business intelligence environment and infrastructure supporting over 350,000 professionals serving more than 6 million veteran patients each year. Dave has also been the lead resource for educating content users and content developers within the VA, crafting and managing a full training and support system that helps over 20,000 users utilize over 50,000 reports and 10,000 dashboards on a daily and weekly basis.

David Siegel, Blockchain, decentralization and business agility expert

Still confused about this whole Blockchain thing? Interested in investing in digital currencies, but not sure where to start? Want to get a better idea of the threats and opportunities?

David Siegel is a Blockchain, decentralization and business agility expert who has been a high-level management & strategy consultant to companies like Sony, Hewlett Packard, Amazon, NASA, Intel, and many start-ups. David has been praised for being able to explain Blockchain in the most simple and interesting way.

What you will learn:
-What is Bitcoin?
-What is the blockchain?
-What is Ethereum? What is Ether?
-What is a distributed application?
-What is a smart contract?
-What is a triple ledger?
-What about identity and security?
-What business models are at risk?
-What are the opportunities?
-What should we do?

Storage can be something of a “black box,” a monolithic entity that is at once mysterious and scary. That’s why we created “The Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud to Ask” webcast series. So far, we’ve explored various and sundry aspects of storage, focusing on “the naming of the parts.” Our goal has been to break down some of the components of storage and explain how they fit into the greater whole.

This time, however, we’re going to open up Pandora’s Box and peer inside the world of storage management, uncovering some of the key technologies that are used to manage devices, storage traffic, and storage architectures. In particular, we’ll be discussing:

•SNMP – The granddaddy of management protocols
•SMI-S – The bread-and-butter of vendor-neutral storage management
•SNIA Swordfish – The new storage management solution gaining widespread momentum
•Software-Defined Storage – the catch-all term for storage that includes architectures and management

There’s so much to say on each of these subjects we could do a full webcast on any one of them, but for a quick overview of many of the technologies that affect storage in one place, we think you will find your time has been well spent.

Join us on September 28th, 2017, for our continuation of the “Too Proud To Ask” series with Cyan, the Storage Management Pod.

Today the payments industry faces a rebirth by necessity. Financial institutions process massive volumes of customer and payments transaction data, much of it unstructured and untapped.

Cognitive Systems have the ability to understand, reason and learn. In Financial Services applying cognitive capabilities to real world payments issues like safer and faster payments is yielding significant results. Furthermore Risk and Compliance and segment of one engagement are areas where ROI is tremendous when leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence in cohesion.

Learn from real world use cases of how financial institutions globally have gained significant competitive advantage by becoming a truly Cognitive Bank.

Over 90% of the world’s data has been generated in the last few years. Accompanying this rapid growth in data comes exponential risks, as witnessed by the spike in cyber attacks of which no organization seems immune. The financial rewards gained by the perpetuators of cyber attacks is blatant, and this is driving continued attacks on companies containing massive amounts of consumer data. For these companies securing data is only half the battle. The risks can be greater when data is transmitted externally, hence it is critical that organizations know where sensitive data is going, how it is being transmitted, and how it is being handled and stored.

On this webinar our panel of experts will discuss some of the best practices organizations can consider to reduce the risk of suffering from a data breach, and to proactively prepare for any subsequent breach that could happen.

There has been a flood of publicity around big data, data processing, and the role of predictive analytics in businesses of the future.
As business operators how do we get access to these valuable business insights, even when there is not a data analyst around to walk us through their results?

- Should your software emulate a data scientist?
- Learn about the power of data visualizations.
- Learn about creating value from disperse data sets.

Predictive Analytics - everyone is talking about it and many organisations claim to be doing it. But are they? And what insights do they gain to then make tactical or strategic changes? How can analysts work with decision makers by sharing results in a visually effective and meaningful way while also informing them about possible courses of action?

This webinar is presented by Andy Kriebel, Head Coach at the Data School and Eva Murray, Tableau Evangelist at Exasol. Guest speakers on Predictive Analytics are Benedetta Tagliaferri, Consulting Analyst at The Information Lab and Matthew Reeve, Chief Data Wrangler at Exasol.

The webinar will look at some examples of predictive analysis and will show data visualization examples that are actionable and can drive further questions and discussions in an organisation.

Looking to take your graphs to the next level? Want to make sure you choose the right visualization? Plagued by the challenges of geospatial heat maps?

Get your questions ready and join this session where data experts Carl and Brett will go over the common questions they get asked and answer all the data visualization issues you've been plagued with, including how to:

-Use location-based data to put your visualization on the map
-Uncover new relationships, patterns and opportunities
-Identify emerging trends
-Answering comparative business questions with set analysis
-Understand best practices for creating an aesthetically-pleasing and useful visualization

When analysis needs to be used by decision makers that didn’t create it, the communication of the information and the message it conveys becomes critical. There is a plethora of ways to layout reports and dashboards, even within a single company.
Enter the SUCCESS formula, that “lightbulb” moment.

Introduced by the IBCS Association (International Business Communication Standards) the SUCCESS formula provides conceptual, perceptual and semantic rules that enable faster, better, and less-costly results in all stages of business communications and decision-making processes.

This webinar will introduce the 7 Rules of SUCCESS that provides a toolkit to aid analysts in designing their visualisations for better reach and decisions in their target audience.

The webinar will also introduce The Philips journey to implementing IBCS principles in their global "Accelerate!” Initiative.

Artificial intelligence has greatly changed the way we live since the 20th century. It involves the science and engineering of making machines intelligent and autonomous using computer programs.

The processing power of computers has been on the exponential increase with cost of processors and storage decreasing. This has made research and developments efforts in AI areas such as deep learning, once thought to be impossible possible.

In this webinar, we will examine current methods, application domains of specific methods, their impacts on our daily lives and try to answer questions on ethics of applying these technologies.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not a technology for the future; it’s a huge business opportunity for today. But how can your organisation become a trailblazer for AI innovation, transforming the way you work to deliver immediate – and lasting – bottom line value?

Former CERN scientist, Prof. Dr. Michael Feindt, is one of the brightest minds in Machine Learning. Join him for a 30-minute masterclass in how to apply AI to your business.

You’ll learn how AI can:
•Make sense of market and customer complexity, to deliver quick and effective decisions every single day
•Increase workforce productivity to improve output and staff morale
•Enhance decision-making and forecasting accuracy, for operational efficiency and improved productivity
•Be implemented into your business quickly, easily, with minimal disruption

Michael will also share real-life examples of how international businesses are using AI as a transformation tool, from his experience as founder of market-leading AI solution provider, Blue Yonder.

Analytics risks can keep you up at night. What if…
· We make a big investment and don’t break even?
· Management doesn’t trust the results?
· Analysts cross data privacy boundaries?

What a dilemma! You see the perils, yet you want the rewards that analytics can bring. The appropriate process enables you to dramatically reduce risks and maximize returns on your data and analytics investment.

In this presentation, you will learn:
· What causes most analytics failures
· How you can diminish risk and maximize returns through strong analytics process
· Why you (yes, you!) have a pivotal opportunity to establish high standards for analytics process right now

This case study is framed in a multinational company with 300k+ employees, present in 100+ countries, that is adding one extra layer of security based on big data analytics capabilities, in order to provide net-new value to their ongoing SOC-related investments.

Having billions of events being generated on a weekly basis, real-time monitoring must be complemented with deep analysis to hunt targeted and advanced attacks.

By leveraging a cloud-based Spark cluster, ElasticSearch, R, Scala and PowerBI, a security analytics platform based on anomaly detection is being progressively implemented.

In this, the seventh entry in the “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask,” popular webcast series we look into the mysticism and magic of what happens when you send your data off into the wilderness. Once you click “save,” for example, where does it actually go?

When we start to dig deeper beyond the application layer, we often don’t understand what happens behind the scenes. It’s important to understand multiple aspects of the type of storage our data goes to along with their associated benefits and drawbacks as well as some of the protocols used to transport it.

Many people get nervous when they see that many acronyms, but all too often they come up in conversation, and you’re expected to know all of them? Worse, you’re expected to know the differences between them, and the consequences of using them? Even worse, you’re expected to know what happens when you use the wrong one?

We’re here to help.

It’s an ambitious project, but these terms and concepts are at the heart of where compute, networking and storage intersect. Having a good grasp of these concepts ties in with which type of storage networking to use, and how data is actually stored behind the scenes.

Please join us on August 1st for another edition of the “Too Proud To Ask” series, as we work towards making you feel more comfortable in the strange, mystical world of storage.

After the webcast, check out the Q&A blog http://sniaesfblog.org/?p=643

Containers can make it easier for developers to know that their software will run, no matter where it is deployed. This webcast, presented by the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative and the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative, will discuss how persistent memory is a revolutionary technology, which will boost the performance of next-generation packaging of applications and libraries into containers.

You’ll learn:
•What SNIA is doing to advance persistent memory
•What the ecosystem enablement efforts are around persistent memory solutions
•How NVDIMMs are paving the way for plug-n-play adoption into containers environments

Join SNIA experts, Arthur Sainio, SNIA NVDIMM SIG Co-chair, Chad Thibodeau, SNIA Cloud Storage member and Alex McDonald Co-chair of SNIA Solid State Storage and SNIA Cloud Storage Initiatives to find out what customers, storage developers, and the industry want to see to fully unlock the potential of persistent memory in a container environment.

In an increasingly digitalised world, the value of information grows ever higher. Winning organisations – whether in financial services or any other vertical sector – will be those who can harness the power of data analytics to develop microscopic levels of insight and foresight into customer behaviours and operational activities in order to make progressive improvements on a continuous basis. Product development informed by factual evidence rather than educated guesswork, or real-time risk management based on a hyper-accurate picture of exposures, bring significant internal and external benefits.

However, while banks want to get closer to their customers, is the feeling mutual? Data privacy is a very sensitive issue, and the perception of what constitutes intrusion will likely vary between individuals. Institutions, therefore, need to walk a fine line between what’s genuinely useful and what’s genuinely creepy.

During this webinar, a panel of respected subject matter experts will discuss and dissect the key issues related to the widespread use of data analytics in financial services, identifying the obstacles which need to be overcome and the enablers that will drive FS forward successfully.

Despite the growing popularity of data visualization tools across all industries, the finance sector still relies heavily on seeing data presented in tabular form. Analysts in financial institutions often spend a large part of their day pouring over spreadsheets, extracting numbers, pivoting tables, running macros and making adjustments before creating static reports to print for management meetings.
But what happens if you have another question?

We argue that there is a better way to approach financial data and to unlock more of the collective brain power of your analysts. We will show you a number of options for visualizing financial results, highlighting trends and developing KPI dashboards that provide real insights quickly. Because there are more valuable things your staff could be doing than wrangling with spreadsheets

In this, the sixth entry in the “Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud To Ask,” popular webcast series we look into some of the nitties and the gritties of storage details that are often assumed.

When looking at data from the lens of an application, host, or operating system, it’s easy to forget that there are several layers of abstraction underneath before the actual placement of data occurs. In this webcast we are going to scratch beyond the first layer to understand some of the basic taxonomies of these layers.

It’s an ambitious project, but these terms and concepts are at the heart of where compute, networking and storage intersect. Having a good grasp of these concepts ties in with which type of storage networking to use, and how data is actually stored behind the scenes.

Join us on July 6th for this session. We look forward to seeing you there!

Logistic regressions are the basic of machine learning. In this webinar, we discuss binomial and multinomial logistic regressions, how we implement them in R and test their performance. We will also review few examples of their usage in industry. In addition, you will learn how to use R-Brain advanced IDE when implementing the model.

Ali has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He has extensive experience in financial modeling, quantitative modeling, and financial risk management in several US banks.